Ticket vending machine



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INVENTOR. LINCOLN M. KEEFE ATTORNEY United States Patent O 2,744,463 Y TICKET VENDING RIACHINE Lincoln M. Keefe, Woodside, N. Y., assigner to Richard l I. N. Weingart, Long Island City, N. Y. Application August29, 1950, Serial No. 182,031

17 Claims. (Cl. lOl- 67) This invention relates to improvements in vending machines and has for an object the provision, in a vendi ing machine, of a coin counter which accepts one or more coins of different denominations, integrates the values of the coins accepted and sets'up a credit in the machine representing the'total value of the coins.

Still another object of the invention is the provision in. a transportation ticket vending machine of a group of t selector keys, each representing a different destination, a plurality of locks normally preventing said keys'from being depressed, means for progressively unlocking said.

vance the same along a path through said stage, selector means including settable push buttons, each corresponding to a different designation, for effecting the positioning of a line of type of a selected designation in registration with said web, means in said machine for printing on said web with the selected line of type, and cutting means for severing the printed portion of said web from the remainder and issuing the same as a ticket.

Another object of the invention is the provision, in a ticket issuing machine, of a bankl of selector buttons in cooperation with the latter, a wheel-like member arrested by any of said buttons with a corresponding line. o f type in printing position, a `series of tickets in the form of `a strip intermittently moved in a path crossing said printing position', means for effecting a printing operation after the arrest of said wheel-like member, and cutting means for thereafter cutting oi a portion of said strip which was printed on and delivering the same outside said machine.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art from a study of this specification and the accompanying drawings.

Referring to the drawings, which are example to illustrate the invention:

Figure 1 is an elevation, partly in section, showing the relation between a bank of selector keys and the locking means and also showing a bank of counters and means carried by the selector keys for actuating said counters;

Figure 2 is a view similar to Figure 1 except that one of the keys of the bank has been depressed, and its plunger end extends into the cut-out portion of one of the locking drum discs;

Figure 3 is a front elevation showing a bank of selector I keys, the supports therefor, and a control member for the ticket printing mechanism which is arrested by a depressed key;

Figure 4 is a plan view of the key bank shown in'Figure 3 which also shows certain bails and which also shows one of the elements for determining the number of pennies to be given in change;

Figure 5 -f is a rear elevation of the key bank shown in Figures 3 and 4;

Figure 6 is a view showing the key bank of Figure 1 enlarged and showing a cross-section of the lockout chain;

l Figure 7 is a fragmentary view of the lockout chain at one end of the key bank showing in elevation a locking rnemberconnecting the portion of thelockout chain on one side of the key stems to the portion of the lockout chain on the other side of the key stems;

Figure 8 is a view, partly in section, taken along the line 8-8 of Figure 7;

Figure 9 is a View similar to Figure 8, except that it shows the opposite or barrier end of the lockout chain;

Figure 10 is an elevation taken along the line 10-10 of Figure 9;

Figure 11 is an elevation, taken along the line 28--28 of Figure 9;

Figure 12 is a front elevation of the counter panel for` Aof several cooperating elements of the machine;

Figure 14 is an elevational View similar to Figure 13, except that a control section is provided below the main supporting plate, and interconnection `between various elements are shown;

Figure l5 is a view of the control section as seen along the line 15--15 of Figure 14;

Figure 16 is a view taken along the line 16-16 of Figure 15;

Figure 17 is an elevation taken along the line 17-17 of Figure 15;

Figure 18 is a view taken below the main support plate looking upwardly and showing the bottom of the control section and mechanism extending therefrom to the ticket printing mechanism and to other elements of the machine;

Figure 19 is a front elevation of the machine showing I mechanism for setting the printing wheel to print a station name corresponding to the name on the key selected; Figure 20 is a right side elevation of the printing mechanism taken along the line 20-20 of Figure 19;

Figure 2l is a fragmentary view of the upper portion l of the printing wheel and showing the knife for severing a printed ticket from a strip;

Figure 22 is an elevation, partly broken away, and showing mechanism for feeding tickets to the printing wheel and other details;

given by way of r` Figure 23 is a plan view of the mechanism for effecting printing operations;

Figure 24 is an elevation, partly in section, taken along the line 24-24 of Figure 23;

Figure 25 is a sectional elevation taken along the line 25-25 of Figure 24;

Figure 26 is a sectional elevation taken along the line 26--26 of Figure`24; t

Figure 27 is a sectional elevation taken along the line l '32-32 of Figure 30; 

